Plant disease resistance genes: Structure, function and evolution

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-160

  Jones, Jonathan D G ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; LIGAND;

AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0029978777     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(96)80006-1     Document Type: Article

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